Statistics Began As The Systematic Study Of

Every Once In A While, Something Happens To You That Makes You Realise That The Human Race Is Not Quite As Bad As It So Often Seems To Be.

Probability Fractions Arise From Our Knowledge And From Our Ignorance.

If You Were Just Intent On Killing People You Could Do Better With A Bomb Made Of Agricultural Fertiliser.

Experimental Work Provides The Strongest Evidence For Scientific Realism. This Is Not Because We Test Hypotheses About Entities. It Is Because Entities That In Principle Cannot Be 'observed' Are Manipulated To Produce A New Phenomena [sic] And To Investigate Other Aspects Of Nature.

Until The Seventeenth Century There Was No Concept Of Evidence With Which To Pose The Problem Of Induction!